Authorities reported: increase in drug addiction in Russia is stopped

Russian authorities managed to stop the rise in the number of drug users in the country. As informs "Interfax", on Tuesday, April 2 said the head of Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov.

Speaking at a meeting with students at the Russian Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow, Ivanov said that in 1990 the annual increase in the number of drug addicts reached 25 and even fifty percent. Now, as the director of the Federal Drug Control Service, this trend is no more, although "it is achieved at great cost." Ivanov said that together with his agency MIA subject to criminal prosecution for drug 110000 people a year.

A significant obstacle to further drug addiction Ivanov called widespread in Russia synthetic drugs. "Once a week, at least there is a new drug" - Complained the head of Federal Drug Control Service. Therefore Ivanov expressed his wish that his department has received the right to stop the civil circulation of chemicals. In the current situation, he said, the state has no mechanism is a rapid response to the drug market innovations.

In January 2013 Ivanov called another major obstacle to the fight against drug trafficking - the Russians access to the systems of electronic payments, including anonymous. Director of the Federal Drug Control Service offered to the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank to tighten control over the electronic money, because, as he said, that electronic payments are increasingly being used for the purchase of drugs within the country and abroad.

Earlier, in January, Ivanov has reported a "phenomenal health of the nation," allegedly made by a ban on the sale of non-prescription drugs kodeinsoderzhaschih from which to develop a drug desomorphine ("crocodile"). The ban was introduced in June 2012 and deprived of Russians freely acquire effective painkillers, in particular, "Nurofen Plus" and "Pentalgin."

According to the data, which FDCS released in June 2012 in Russia, regularly or occasionally use drugs 8.5 million people, at least once tried to 18.5 million. Deaths from drugs in Russia, according to the Federal Drug Control Service, up to a hundred thousand people a year. In March 2012 Ivanov announced a program for the rehabilitation and reintegration of drug addicts, which will cost 150 billion rubles, and in 2020 will "save from death a million of our citizens."